I think The Great Ghost Rescue was my first Eva Ibbotson book, lo, these many years ago. (Having just bought a Kindle copy to read with Marcus, I see the copyright date is 1975 so it isn’t exactly a new book.) Years later a found a copy of A Company of Swans in a second hand bookshop and fell in love with her adult (now marketed as YA) novels. In typical fashion, I bought them up second hand, read several but never read them all. My plan was to reread those and leave the children’s books, but while looking for covers I found myself feeling nostalgic for some of those children’s stories as well. Everything is listed here, but I’m not holding myself to reading the children’s ones if I choose not to.
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I reread Magic Flutes earlier this year (such a lovely book) and, as I said above, I did buy The Great Ghost Rescue to read with Marcus. We’re up to chapter 5 and enjoying it so far. If we wants to keep reading the books, I’ll keep on going with him. Otherwise, it’s a case of how I feel at the time.
1975 READ Own in ebook |
1979 READ Own in ebook |
1981 READ Own in paper, ebook |
1982 READ Own in paper, ebook |
1984 Unread Out of Print |
1985 Read Previously Own in paper |
1987 Unread Own in ebook |
1988 Unread Own in paper |
1989 Unread |
1993 Unread Own in paper, ebook |
1994 Unread |
1996 Unread |
1997 Unread Own in paper, ebook |
1999 Unread Own in ebook |
2001 Read Previously Own in paper |
2004 Unread |
2005 Unread |
2008 Unread |
2010 Unread |
2011 Unread |
Hmm, I thought I had copies of Madensky Square and A Song for Summer but I can’t find either. I have a feeling I might have loaned/given them to my mother because I had never quite got around to reading them. I will have to check with her. She’s coming up to stay in a few weeks, so maybe if she has them, I can ask her to bring them back. I’m going to leave them listed as “owned in paper” for now, but I’ll change it if she doesn’t have them either.
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